Broadcast Act Architect Doesn't Like CBC TV

In an article by Marke Andrews at the Vancouver Sun today Jeremy Kinsman seemed less than thrilled with CBC television. Kinsman was assistant deputy minister for culture and broadcasting when the broadcast act was written 20 years ago. From the Vancouver Sun:

"One of the architects of the federal Broadcasting Act, which gave the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) greater power to police Canadian culture, says the act has been a success except for one glaring failure: the English-language television side of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

"It's become so dumbed-down," says Jeremy Kinsman, a Victoria resident and former Canadian diplomat who was assistant deputy minister for culture and broadcasting 20 years ago when he and others in the government hammered out the act. Kinsman will deliver the keynote address on this subject at 9 a.m. on Feb. 2 at Trigger Points Pacific, the three-day film industry conference that's part of the Victoria Film Festival."